Opinion page editor Rick Holmes and other writers blog about national politics and issues. Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of policy, news and opinion. This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion
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Opinion page editor Rick Holmes and other writers blog about national politics and issues. Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of policy, news and opinion. This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion section of the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass. As such, our focus starts there and spreads to include Massachusetts, the nation and the world. Since successful blogs create communities of readers and writers, we hope the \x34& Co.\x34 will also come to include you.

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By Rick Holmes

April 27, 2013
12:01 a.m.

I’m ending the week on a musical note, think of two singers we lost in the last few days.

Richie Havens was never a superstar, but he had a way of making any song his own.† He was the first artist to make it to the stage at Woodstock in 1969, and the only one for a long time.† He played for hours to fill the gap, a performance that lives on film and in rock history.

George Jones was a country music superstar and he died today a country music legend.† He brought country back to its roots in the ’80s, with a vocal style that borrowed from Hank and Elvis and made something both old and new. He lived the life of a country legend: lots of drinking, multiple marriages, including a couple to country legend Tammy Wynette. There’s a reason his voice sounds like Jim Beam.